For the most part, I've found such behaviors (with a few exceptions, of course) to be predominantly reflective in nature - and my more recent Gaulic adventures over the last decade or so have led me to conclude that even today's Parisians are not the same caliber of haughty stuffiness of days gone bye-bye. 
And as for the 'Silver Age' - now we're talkin' comic books...and now we're talkin'!
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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